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Crowd Design: From Tools for Empowerment to Platform Capitalism
Florian Alexander Schmidt
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Description for Crowd Design: From Tools for Empowerment to Platform Capitalism
Hardcover. Series: Board of International Research in Design. Num Pages: 272 pages, 30 black & white illustrations, 30 schw.-w. Abb. BIC Classification: AKP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 224 x 168. .
The digital revolution is interwoven with the promise to empower the user. Yet, the rise of centralised, commercial platforms for crowdsourced work questions the validity of this narrative. In Crowd-Design, Florian Alexander Schmidt analyses the workings and the rhetoric of crowdsourced work platforms by comparing the way they address the masses today with historic notions of the crowd. The utopian concepts of early online collaboration are taken as a vantage point from which to view and critique current and, at times, dystopian applications of crowdsourced work. The study is focused on the crowdsourcing of design tasks, but these specific applications ... Read more
The digital revolution is interwoven with the promise to empower the user. Yet, the rise of centralised, commercial platforms for crowdsourced work questions the validity of this narrative. In Crowd-Design, Florian Alexander Schmidt analyses the workings and the rhetoric of crowdsourced work platforms by comparing the way they address the masses today with historic notions of the crowd. The utopian concepts of early online collaboration are taken as a vantage point from which to view and critique current and, at times, dystopian applications of crowdsourced work. The study is focused on the crowdsourcing of design tasks, but these specific applications ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Publisher
Birkhäuser
Condition
New
Series
Board of International Research in Design
Number of Pages
256
Place of Publication
Basel, Switzerland
ISBN
9783035611984
SKU
V9783035611984
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About Florian Alexander Schmidt
Florian Alexander Schmidt, University of the Arts Bremen, editor-in-chief of the German print magazine agenda design.
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